CSR - community program-- As supporting efforts to involve employees and communities to the DuPont Sustainability Goals, DuPont Vietnam launched a tree planting project in My Phu village, Thu Thua district, Long An province with the participation of local authorities, residents and DuPont staff.

DuPont Crop Protection held its second stewardship celebration Saturday at the Negros Weekend Market in Bacolod City as part of the Fil-American Friendship Day celebration.

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Venus said stewardship is taking care of the environment and they want their customers in the sugarcane industry to be responsible planters themselves.

“This is specific to the use of crop protection products like our products in DuPont. When they use our products, we want them to take care of the environment by not throwing their waste packaging materials anywhere,” he said.

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“DuPont is proud to ring the closing bell on behalf of our employees, shareholders and all of our stakeholders, as we prepare to take a significant step forward in our transformation through the spin-off of Chemours,” said Kullman. “Starting July 1, we become a significantly different company that is more growth-driven, more science intensive and less cyclical – with a strong focus on the areas of major need where our science and engineering can uniquely make a difference.”

“Leveraging our innovation and global reach, and with an emphasis on cost and productivity, we are uniquely positioned to capture significant opportunities for growth and to drive compelling and sustainable value for our shareholders,” added Kullman.

He also spoke highly of Dupont’s help to launch large-scale model paddy fields in the central province of Thanh Hoa and train agricultural experts in Can Tho University.

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Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung expressed support for cooperative programmes in the field of agriculture conducted by the US’ DuPont Corporation, during his May 20 reception for the company’s Chair of the Board of Directors and CEO Ellen Kullman.

“DuPont as a science company have been bringing our innovation and technology to Indonesia for more than 40 years. We use our R&D capabilities to develop new technology and solutions in addressing major challenges by bringing the problem-solving might of science and the collective ingenuity of collaboration to the table. With more..."

“DuPont as a science company have been bringing our innovation and technology to Indonesia for more than 40 years. We use our R&D capabilities to develop new technology and solutions in addressing major challenges by bringing the problem-solving might of science and the collective ingenuity of collaboration to the table. With more..."

“DuPont as a science company have been bringing our innovation and technology to Indonesia for more than 40 years. We use our R&D capabilities to develop new technology and solutions in addressing major challenges by bringing the problem-solving might of science and the collective ingenuity of collaboration to the table. With more..."

“DuPont is a global science company that has been operating in Malaysia for over 40 years. Through the years, we have applied our broad range of scientific knowledge and expertise to provide solutions to various industries in the country – palm oil included. In fact, one of our major collaborations in the industry was with Malaysia’s palm oil conglomerate that leverages on DuPont crop yield innovations which aims to improve oil palm yield by using marker-assisted selection (MAS) to identify high performance oil palm breeds. This will unlock the natural potential of the oil palm. Moreover, we also operate a palm-oil based emulsifier production plant at Seberang Prai that sources its raw materials locally from both RSPO and non-RSPO certified producers,” shared Hsing Ho, group managing director, DuPont ASEAN

"55% of the ASEAN population are living in rural areas. They’re not travelling, they’re not crossing countries to work in another country, they are trying to survive,” says Ho Hsing Chan, Group MD, ASEAN, DuPont Singapore.

According to Minister of Trade Rachmat Gobel, the WEFEA is a forum to discuss world’s economic challenges though during WEF he has done bilateral meetings that indicates an increase in investment and trade. Besides bilateral meetings with government officials, bilateral with some private companies also done, and said their intention to expand its investment in Indonesia. DuPont was one of the private companies who had a discussion with the Minister.

Private and government believe that AEC can open significant opportunity and gives benefit to SMEs. This due to a less production tarrifs and product & service movement can be more liberal when ASEAN is integrated.

Group Managing Director DuPont Singapore, Ho Hsing-Chan explains that the current AEC weakness is businessmen who do not fully understand the opportunity of ASEAN integration. “There are many conversations going on at the level of government that has not translated well to the business community, including small and medium enterprises,” he added.

DuPont at Hazards AP 2015

Process Safety Management is the application of management systems and controls to a manufacturing process in a way that process hazards (risks) are identified, understood, and controlled so that process-related injuries and incidents are prevented.

Watch New York Stock Exchange's DuPont rings the NYSE Closing Bell on Livestream.com.

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NEW YORK, June 29, 2015 – DuPont (NYSE: DD) today rang the NYSE Closing Bell to mark the anticipated separation of The Chemours Company (Chemours). DuPont Chair and Chief Executive Officer Ellen Kullman was joined by senior management at the bell ringing event.

“DuPont as a science company have been bringing our innovation and technology to Indonesia for more than 40 years. We use our R&D capabilities to develop new technology and solutions in addressing major challenges by bringing the problem-solving might of science and the collective ingenuity of collaboration to the table. With more..."

A delegation of top executives from 10 major US companies arrived in Jakarta on Monday, as they seek to forge stronger business relationships in Indonesia and are collectively considering more than $1 billion in new investment over the next three to five years.

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The delegation includes companies from Ace Group, Cigna, the Coca-Cola Company, DuPont, Intel, Medtronic, Monsanto, and Procter & Gamble, of which all have a business presence in Indonesia.

“DuPont as a science company have been bringing our innovation and technology to Indonesia for more than 40 years. We use our R&D capabilities to develop new technology and solutions in addressing major challenges by bringing the problem-solving might of science and the collective ingenuity of collaboration to the table. With more..."

A delegation of Asia-Pacific CEO’s and Presidents of 10 major U.S. companies organized by the US-ASEAN Business Council arrives in Jakarta today to begin a series of meetings focused on long-term U.S. business investment in Indonesia and support for increased ASEAN economic integration. The high-level delegation will visit Indonesia and Malaysia to meet with a wide variety of government officials and business leaders, including President Jokowi, the Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, H.E. Sofyan Djlail, the Chairman of the Indonesian Investment Coordination Board, H.E.

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“DuPont as a science company have been bringing our innovation and technology to Indonesia for more than 40 years. We use our R&D capabilities to develop new technology and solutions in addressing major challenges by bringing the problem-solving might of science and the collective ingenuity of collaboration to the table. With more..."

“Moving forward, we see very exciting opportunities in renewable and industrial biotechnology space, in line with the Malaysia Biotechnology Policy. With more than 10,000 scientists and engineers and over 150 R&D centers globally, DuPont welcomes collaboration...“

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“DuPont is a global science company that has been operating in Malaysia for over 40 years. Through the years, we have applied our broad range of scientific knowledge and expertise to provide solutions to various industries in the country – palm oil included. In fact..."

Profession as farmers are now starting to be forgotten though in fact, the need for food is still very high especially in Southeast Asia.

Group Managing Director ASEAN DuPont Singapore Ho Hsing-Chan said that there are less Singaporean farmers in rural areas and this has become challenge for AEC. T”There is less worker working in rural area and sawah. This is not easy to handle and answered by AEC,” he said at WED at Shangri-La Jakarta, Tuesday.

DuPont is excited and honored to participate in Local Champions and Global Leaders, a SG50 project supervised by Ministry of Trade & Industry and SPRING Singapore, led by Ms Olivia Lum, Executive Chairman and Group CEO of Hyflux Ltd, and Mr Tan Chuan-Jin, Minister of Manpower.

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Touching Lives – DuPont contributions to Singapore you may not be aware ofYou may not see DuPont logo as often as you do with other commercial products. You will be amazed you actually use DuPont products much more often than you do others on a daily basis. Through this project, let’s follow an ordinary Singaporean for a day to illustrate how DuPont makes lives safer, happier and healthier for the nation.

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